What Do the Police Put On a Bad Pig?

Cross out the box containing each correct answer. (If an answer appears more than
once, it doesn't matter which one you cross out.) When you finish, write the letters
from the remaining boxes in the spaces at the bottom of the page.
I. Find each probability if you spin both spinners.

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P(white, A)
P(striped, A)
P(not striped, A)
P(not white, A)

P(white, B)
P(striped, B)
P(not striped, B)
P(not white, B)

11. Find each probability if you spin the spinner and roll the number cube.

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P(blue, 2)
P( yellow, even)
P(not blue, 5)
P(red, 4)

P(blue, not 2)
P(red, even)

P(not blue, odd)

P(red, not 4)

Ill. Find each probability if you pick one marble,

replace it, then pick a second marble.

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P(black, white)
P(white, striped)
P(black, black)
P(white, not white)

P(black, striped)
P(not white, striped)
P(striped, striped)
P(not white, not white)

IV. Solve.

A test has two multiple choice

questions, each with five choices.
What is the probability of guessing
the correct answer to both questions?

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1 1 1 1
3 4 4 5 6
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2 2
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@ One letter is randomly selected from

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1 1 1 1 1 1
7 8 8 9 1 0 e
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2 2
2 3 3
4
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1 5 %
8 , 1 0 , ~

TOPIC 4-d: Independent Events

the word MATH, and a second letter

is randomly selected from the word
JOKES. What is the probability that
both letters are vowels?
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e % % %
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4
4 5 5
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7

O
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8

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